Gates Orders Services To Adopt McChrystal's COIN Standards - Defense News: "Defense Secretary Robert Gates has directed the U.S. military services to adopt a set of counterinsurgency tools modeled after ones instituted in Afghanistan by Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, said a senior Pentagon official.
Gates on May 24 signed a directive ordering the services to 'take McChrystal's COIN training and proficiency standards ... and adapt those for the whole force,' Garry Reid, deputy assistant secretary of defense for special operations and combat terrorism, told Defense News May 25.
The idea is to take the kinds of COIN training and 'proficiency' standards that McChrystal, the top American general in Afghanistan, implemented there with his 'AfPak Hands' program."
